KINGDOM CONCEPT #2: UNDERSTANDING THE KINGDOM CONCEPT OF LORD

Exodus chapter 20




Today we are walking in: Kingdom Principle #2: Understanding The Kingdom Concept Of Lord




Today we look to the word- LORD- H3068- Yahovah- the existing One, the proper name of the one true God






The Torah testifies...............





Exodus 10:24

And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the Lord H3068; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones also go with you.






The prophets proclaim..................




Amos 5:18

Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord H3068! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord H3068 is darkness, and not light.







The writings bear witness...........................




Proverbs 16:4

The Lord H3068 hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.




One of the most common words used in Scripture is the word lord. This word does not exist in democracies, socialist societies, or republics, except in the word land- lord, in reference to one who owns land. Landlord is the only common remnant of kingdoms in modern governments and Western societies. Yet this concept of lord is one of the fundamental principles of a kingdom.

Every kingdom must have a king, but it is also true that every king is automatically a “lord.” It is this quality of lordship that distinguishes a king from a president, a prime minister, a mayor, and a governor. As a matter of fact, a king’s lordship makes him different from any other kind of human leader. Lordship makes a king unique.

In the last teaching we talked about a king’s sovereignty—how a king is free from external control and he can do whatever he pleases with accountability to no one except himself. A king’s sovereignty is absolute. He is neither voted into nor voted out of power; sovereignty is his by right of birth. The same is true of a king’s lordship. All kings are automatically lords.

So what’s the difference between a king and a lord? Lordship is only one aspect of a king’s overall identity and status, but it is one of the most important ones. One way to put it is to say that king relates to dominion, while lord relates to domain. The word dominion refers to a king’s authority—his power; the word domain refers to the territory, the property, the geographical area over which his authority extends. A king exercises authority (dominion) over a specific geo- graphical area (domain) and within that area his authority is absolute.

Without a domain there is no king. A king is a king only so far as he has something to rule over. What good does it do to have authority if you have nowhere to exercise it? In that case, you really don’t have authority. The most you have is potential authority. Until you have a physical domain over which to rule, your so-called “authority” is little more than theory.

If the word lord relates to a king’s domain, then the lordship of a king is tied up in his territory. To put it another way, if kingship has to do with authority, then lordship has to do with ownership. Let me explain. If a king must have a domain in order to be a king, then all true kings must have and own territory. This is what we call the kingdom lordship principle. You cannot be a king unless you own property. It is not the same simply to exercise rule and authority over a geographical region. Presidents do that. Prime ministers do that. Governors do that. But presidents, prime ministers, and governors do not own the territory over which they rule, and therein lies the difference. Kings personally own the physical domain over which they reign, and that is what makes them not only kings but also lords. So king and property go together. And the word lord defines the king’s identity as “owner” of his domain.

As lord, a king literally and legally owns everything in his domain: the forests and the meadows, the mountains and the valleys, the rivers and the streams, the crops and the livestock, even the people and the houses they live in. Everything in a king’s domain belongs to him. Because of this, a king has absolute and unquestionable control over his domain. This goes back to a king’s sovereign authority. A king is sovereign by right of birth, but he is also sovereign by right of ownership.

The fact of a king’s sole ownership of his domain carries a couple of significant implications that are easily lost by people who have grown up in a democracy. First, and rather obvious, is that if the king owns everything, then no one in the kingdom owns anything. In a true kingdom, there is no such thing as private property ownership. Kingdom citizens are stewards, not owners. They may occupy the land; farm it; mine its minerals, ores, and precious gems; build houses and places of business on it; and carry on all the other normal activities of human communities; but they do all of these only by the king’s permission and good pleasure. Ultimately, everything belongs to him.

Second, if the king owns everything, he can give anything to anyone at any time according to his own sovereign choice. In a democracy, if the prime minister or the president gives you property as a personal favor, it is called corruption. But if a king gives you property, it is called royal favor. And no one can question it or protest it because as owner, it is his prerogative to do as he pleases. Not only does a king possess the authority to distribute his property anytime, anywhere, to anyone, as much as he wishes, but he also can switch his property from one person to another. He can take something from one person and give it to you, or he can take something from you and give it to somebody else.

Because a king’s dominion is so closely tied to territory, his wealth is measured by the size and richness of his domain. That is why kings always want to expand their kingdom; they seek to increase their wealth. Think about the British, French, and Spanish kingdoms of the last several hundred years. The kings of those realms dispatched ships and established colonies all over the world. Why? Because they wanted to enlarge the borders and fill the coffers of their kingdoms. The larger and richer their domain, the greater their reputation and glory.

KING AND LORD

Although I have been speaking about lordship from the context of earthly kingdoms, everything I have said so far applies with even greater validity to the Kingdom of Heaven and its King. We have already seen that The Most High Yah is the King of heaven and earth by divine right of creation; He is King of all because He created all. And because every king is automatically a lord, the King of all is also the Lord of all; He owns everything because He made everything.

The Bible, the constitution of the Kingdom of Heaven, plainly identifies The Most High Yah as King and Lord of all. One of the most common Hebrew words used to refer to The Most High Yah in the Old Testament is adonai, which literally means proprietor or owner. It is usually translated “lord.” The personal name for The Most High Yah, Yah, although difficult to translate with complete accuracy, carries the same idea of master, owner, or lord.

This biblical picture of The Most High Yah as Lord is further enhanced by the fact that in most Bible versions, the personal name Yah, wherever it occurs, is replaced with the word “Lord.” This is in keeping with an ancient Hebrew tradition where devout Hebrews so respected and honored The Most High Yah’s name that they would not even speak it or read it aloud to ensure that they did not inadvertently violate the Third Commandment by misusing His name. Instead, they substituted the word adonai, or “Lord.”

So over and over the truth is hammered home: The Most High Yah is the Lord...The Most High Yah is the Lord...The Most High Yah is the Lord. This truth is reiterated even in the most basic confession of faith for a Hebrew, recited every morning:

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our The Most High Yah, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your The Most High Yah with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength (Deuteronomy 6:4-5).




So in this way the Hebrews were reminded every day that their The Most High Yah was Owner of all. This included Heaven and earth. An ancient Hebrew poet expressed it this way:

May you be blessed by the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. The highest heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth He has given to man (Psalm 115:15-16, emphasis added).

As Maker and Owner of heaven and earth, The Most High Yah could give any portion of it to anyone He chose. And He chose to give the earth to man, not for man to be owner but ruler/manager, or steward. Here are some additional references verifying The Most High Yah’s rights to Lordship over the property of earth:

The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for He founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters (Psalm 24:1-2).

For The Most High Yah is the King of all the earth; sing to Him a psalm of praise. The Most High Yah reigns over the nations; The Most High Yah is seated on His holy throne. The nobles of the nations assemble as the people of the The Most High Yah of Abraham, for the kings of the earth belong to The Most High Yah; He is greatly exalted (Psalm 47:7-9).

And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it (Exodus 7:5).

O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! (Psalm 8:1a).

I said to the Lord, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing (Psalm 16:2).

The poor will eat and be satisfied; they who seek the Lord will praise Him—may your hearts live forever! All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations will bow down before Him, for dominion belongs to the Lord and He rules over the nations (Psalm 22:26-28).

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want (Psalm 23:1).

Lift up your heads, O you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O you gates; lift them up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is He, this King of glory? The Lord Almighty—He is the King of glory (Psalm 24:7-10).

“The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,” declares the Lord Almighty (Haggai 2:8).

In the same way as the Old Testament reveals The Most High Yah as King and Lord and Owner of all, the New Testament reveals Yahashua Christ as Lord and Owner of all. First of all, as we have already seen, Yahashua came announcing the arrival and reestablishment of the Kingdom of heaven on earth, something only the King Himself could do. And because a king is automatically a lord, this means that Yahashua is Lord also.

In addition, the most common Greek word for “lord,” kurios, is applied to Yahashua repeatedly in the New Testament. Kurios signifies having power. It also means one who possesses ultimate authority; master. Everything the Old Testament says about The Most High Yah as Lord, the New Testament says about Yahashua.

The Lordship of Yahashua is also by creative rights and was a natural result of His role in the creation of all things both seen and unseen. In essence, we do not “make” Yahashua Lord; He is Lord by creative right, whether we acknowledge Him or not. In His pre existence before He came to earth, Yahashua was identified as “the Word.” It was in this dimension that He was the source of creation. Let us read the record of His creative activity that gives Him Lordship rights:

In the beginning The Most High Yah created the heavens and the earth

(Genesis 1:1).

And The Most High Yah said, “Let there be light,” and there was light

(Genesis 1:3).

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with The Most High Yah, and the Word was The Most High Yah. He was with The Most High Yah in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made (John 1:1-3).

The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth (John 1:14).

But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe. The Son is the radiance of The Most High Yah’s glory and the exact representation of His being, sustaining all things by His powerful word (Hebrews 1:2-3a).

Here is ample evidence that Yahashua as the eternal Word was responsible for the creation of the universe and for sustaining it.

One familiar story about Yahashua drives this point home. Only a week before His death, Yahashua was preparing to enter Jerusalem, but He intended to do it in a very specific way.

As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Yahashua sent two of His disciples, saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ tell him, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here shortly.’” They went and found a colt outside in the street, tied at a doorway. As they untied it, some people standing there asked, “What are you doing, untying that colt?” They answered as Yahashua had told them to, and the people let them go (Mark 11:1-6).



In this story, Yahashua acted in His authority as Lord. There is no indication that He had prearranged this with the owner of the colt or that He asked anyone’s permission. As Lord of all, He owned the colt anyway. Yahashua just told His disciples, “Bring me the colt.” When challenged, all the disciples had to say was, “The Lord needs it.” That was all it took; the owners released the colt.




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